Communities of print : books and their readers in early modern Europe / edited by Rosamund Oates, Jessica G. Purdy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Purdy, Jessica G., editor.

Oates, Rosamund, editor.

Series:

Library of the Written Word ; 99.

Library of the Written Word ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--History--Europe--18th century.

Book industries and trade.

Books and reading--Social aspects--History--Europe.

Books and reading.

Community life--History--Europe.

Community life.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

This book provides a new perspective on book history by exploring communities created by the production and consumption of printed material. Essays by leading scholars explore the connections between writers, printers, booksellers and readers and examine changes and continuities across the period 1500 to 1800. As well as investigating the networks behind the production and dissemination of printed material, this collection examines the ways in which readers consumed, used and shared their printed texts. By focusing on the materiality of early modern texts, contributors to this volume offer new interpretations of the history of reading, the book trade, and the book as an object in early modern Europe.

Contents:

List of Figures, Tables and Graphs

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Rosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy

part 1: Networks of Books

1 Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg

Drew B. Thomas

2 Market Realities: Christopher Plantin's International Networks in an Ever-Changing World

Julianne Simpson

3 'Far Off from the Well's Head': The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire

Rosamund Oates

4 'For the Edification of the Common People': Humphrey Chetham's Parish Libraries

Jessica G. Purdy

part 2: Reading Together

5 Friars and Friends: Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities

Flavia Bruni

6 Teachers of Christ's Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age

Forrest C. Strickland

7 Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660-c. 1730

Michael A.L. Smith

part 3: Different Readers

8 Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers

Nina Adamova

9 Reading Medieval Wales: David Powel's History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers

Kathryn Hurlock

10 Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs

Catherine Evans

11 Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems

Tim Somers

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-47043-3

OCLC:

1264174112

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004470439 DOI